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    In other articles the guy was quoted as saying 2020-2030.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dpeilow View Post
    In other articles the guy was quoted as saying 2020-2030.
    So the ambiguity is whether lithium-air will be my first or my second replacement battery in my Model S.

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    When someone gives you timelines like that it means they just don't know, it sounds like the story about gravity probe -b where every ten years they were just ten years away... for fifty years. I do believe something will turn up, this or something else but I am more excited about cutting cost and incremental improvements on the batteries we have now and anything above that is of course welcome.

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    They simply haven't solved all the problems yet, and since they don't know the solutions, they don't know how long it takes to find them.

    However it seems they still consider them solvable.

    The good thing is that there are now a lot of different directions being explored, and only one of them has to work well for it all to be worth the effort.
    Buying an EV is one thing, being able to drive it beyond city limits another...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bearman View Post
    When someone gives you timelines like that it means they just don't know, it sounds like the story about gravity probe -b where every ten years they were just ten years away... for fifty years.
    Hey, but we finally launched the thing. I drove down to Vandenberg AFB to watch it. Of course the the actual experiment and data analysis took longer than expected as well.

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    No dissection at all since he has no facts. That's why I put the same link in the Anti-EV gibberish thread

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    This is the same kind of lawyer thinking that says a tire has to go twice as fast at the top because the part of the tire on the ground is stationary.
    Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jerry33 View Post
    This is the same kind of lawyer thinking that says a tire has to go twice as fast at the top because the part of the tire on the ground is stationary.
    That makes my brain hurt.

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